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How popular is “Brigitte” in the USA?

Number of people named “Brigitte” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Brigitte” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Brigitte” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Brigitte” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Brigitte” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Brigitte” by birth year

This chart shows how “Brigitte” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1946 5 0.000001565 5 100%
1948 12 0.000003476 12 100%
1949 9 0.000002583 9 100%
1950 7 0.000001998 7 100%
1951 6 0.000001629 6 100%
1952 11 0.000002896 11 100%
1953 22 0.000005709 22 100%
1954 15 0.000003768 15 100%
1955 18 0.000004483 18 100%
1956 30 0.000007276 30 100%
1957 33 0.000007853 33 100%
1958 168 0.00004064 168 100%
1959 282 0.000067821 282 100%
1960 314 0.000075593 314 100%
1961 280 0.000067595 280 100%
1962 269 0.000066661 269 100%
1963 219 0.000055328 219 100%
1964 221 0.000056847 221 100%
1965 288 0.000079438 288 100%
1966 283 0.000081424 283 100%
1967 228 0.00006716 228 100%
1968 204 0.000060383 204 100%
1969 224 0.000064454 224 100%
1970 189 0.000052405 189 100%
1971 171 0.00004982 171 100%
1972 154 0.000048998 154 100%
1973 152 0.000050383 152 100%
1974 117 0.000038487 117 100%
1975 99 0.000032788 99 100%
1976 136 0.000044821 136 100%
1977 124 0.000039037 124 100%
1978 81 0.000025521 81 100%
1979 94 0.000028254 94 100%
1980 114 0.000033096 114 100%
1981 114 0.000032954 114 100%
1982 113 0.000032212 113 100%
1983 120 0.000034649 120 100%
1984 100 0.000028664 100 100%
1985 158 0.000044269 158 100%
1986 146 0.000041045 146 100%
1987 162 0.00004493 162 100%
1988 172 0.000046549 172 100%
1989 182 0.000047341 182 100%
1990 160 0.000040481 160 100%
1991 130 0.000033374 130 100%
1992 162 0.000042174 162 100%
1993 157 0.000041641 157 100%
1994 159 0.000042769 159 100%
1995 131 0.000035771 131 100%
1996 122 0.00003345 122 100%
1997 112 0.00003089 112 100%
1998 91 0.00002474 91 100%
1999 79 0.000021387 79 100%
2000 77 0.000020371 77 100%
2001 83 0.000022172 83 100%
2002 101 0.000027018 101 100%
2003 103 0.000027089 103 100%
2004 81 0.000021199 81 100%
2005 78 0.000020287 78 100%
2006 106 0.000026793 106 100%
2007 54 0.000013508 54 100%
2008 51 0.000012975 51 100%
2009 60 0.000015706 60 100%
2010 53 0.000014341 53 100%
2011 58 0.000015857 58 100%
2012 96 0.000026248 96 100%
2013 85 0.000023315 85 100%
2014 140 0.000037773 140 100%
2015 130 0.000035126 130 100%
2016 96 0.000026167 96 100%
2017 65 0.000018176 65 100%
2018 77 0.000021901 77 100%
2019 60 0.000017286 60 100%
2020 53 0.000015866 53 100%
2021 63 0.000018595 63 100%
2022 49 0.000014484 49 100%
2023 57 0.000017214 57 100%
2024 77 0.000023134 77 100%

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